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I agree with all the other advice given here. All I can say is that I ran Marklin for 35 years before switching to two rail DC. Marklin quality (as far as runnig and construction) is some of the best in the industry. The locos are machined metal with some plastic detail parts.. Precise and very well crafted. There was never any of the "tweaking out of the box" to get the stuff to run. The locos I bought ran consistently well for many, many years. I have my first Marklin loco (It is forty years old and still runs). The downside to their gear was that it wasn't overly detailed, wasn't always to scale and suffered from some toy- like compromises for running and operational effieciency (most notably deep flanges). From what I can see of the Big Boy, they have fixed some of those issues. I left Marklin just before they offered the Big Boy because they didn't offer enough US prototype. I agree with the others, go run both of them yourself, (No flaming here) IMHO the Trix/Marklin will have the better quality....The real question is do you want a Big Boy or a Challenger??? BTW you can beat the $650.00 price tag by several hundred dollars if you look around... Guy
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